Who Owns LinkedIn Contacts – An Employee Or Employer?

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Who owns LinkedIn contacts – an employee or employer? Will an employee be in breach of their post-termination restrictions if they post on LinkedIn following termination of their employment?

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Who owns LinkedIn contacts – an employee or employer? Will an employee be in breach of their post-termination restrictions if they post on LinkedIn following termination of their employment?

Polly Rodway and Samantha Prosser discuss these thorny issues in this article published by International Employment Lawyer:

https://www.internationalemploymentlawyer.com/news/restrictive-covenants-and-social-media-whose-linkedin-contact-it-anyway

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Polly Rodway